Charles Warren Stoddard

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was an American poet and travel writer, born at Rochester, New York. Bret Harte edited his first book, Poems (1867); he spent years in the Hawaiian Islands and the South Seas, wrote South Sea Idyls (1873), and later taught English literature at Notre Dame and lectured at the Catholic University in Washington.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).